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This publication is the fruit of Lukes' Oxford Ph.D. dissertation (1968) entitled, "Émile Durkheim: An Intellectual Biography." Lukes' work appears to be the definitive critical biography of Durkheim; the text of the book is 676 pages. It includes a definitive bibliography of Durkheim's publications (pp.561-590) and a comprehensive bibliography of secondary literature (591-615).
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[I]n this issue of the Journal appears an article on Durkheim's Division of Labor, and this review may well be brief. Published when the author was thirty-five years old, the work accepts as accurate the crude misconceptions of the 1880's concerning the life of primitive man as set forth in the books of those who were no more competent to describe them than a botanist would be to write a treatise in his field without ever having seen a plant.
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This is an introductory essay on Durkheim that serves as a preface to a more detailed analysis of some of Durkheim's published works. The essay discusses Durkheim's thought in context with Freud and Weber, and it especially emphasizes Durkheim's approach to the sociology of religion.
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